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WASHINGTON—On Monday, Oct. 17, two days after setting a new record by making 25 false claims in a day, Donald Trump did a rally in Green Bay, Wisc., and three interviews. He made 22 more false claims—adding a bunch of new ones about voter fraud to his usual litany.

1. Falsely said, of African-Americans, “They like me better than they like her.” (Clinton was up 86 per cent to 9 per cent with black voters in a typical recent poll.)

2. Falsely said, of voter fraud, “Philadelphia is one that’s mentioned. I think Romney got no votes and McCain got no votes. I mean, like no votes.” (Both Mitt Romney and John McCain got votes in Philadelphia. Romney got zero votes in just 3 per cent of the city’s districts, a fact the Republican chief in the city says is not suspicious given the overwhelming Democratic advantage in black neighbourhoods there and given that Barack Obama was running.)

3. Falsely said, “Hillary even got the questions and answers in advance of a major debate.” (Hacked emails suggest Clinton’s campaign was sent one question in advance for a Democratic town hall on CNN, not a major debate, not “questions” plural, and not “answers.”)

4. Falsely said, “If you look at the polls and the polling places in various cities, they’re also rigged in the cities, let’s not kid ourselves.” (There is no evidence of election-rigging in American cities.)

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5. Falsely said, “There is tremendous voter fraud.” (There is not. One expert found 31 cases between 2000 and 2014.)

9. Falsely said, “Your taxes will go way down under a Trump administration.” (This claim would only be true if addressed to very rich people. Independent experts say the overwhelming majority of Trump’s cuts will go to the rich. Half are for the top 1 per cent, according to the Tax Policy Center, and some middle-class families will pay even more than they do now. Most families below the top 20 per cent of earners are expected to reap income gains of less than 1 per cent.)

10. Falsely said, “Crooked Hillary wants to raise your taxes big league.” (This would only be true if addressed to very rich people. The Tax Policy Center says most residents below the top 1 per cent will receive minor tax cuts under Clinton’s plan, while the top 1 per cent will be hit with an average increase of $118,000.)

11. Falsely said, of the New START nuclear arms-reduction deal with Russia, “They didn’t even ask us for anything. They asked us not to reduce anything.” (Jeffrey Lewis, scholar at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey, says it is wrong to say Russia didn’t ask for reductions. “We each wanted the other to make different kinds of reductions,” he says. “We wanted to reduce the number of warheads and they wanted to reduce the number of delivery vehicles...The final thing was a compromise.”)

12. Falsely said, apparently of sexual assault accuser Summer Zervos, “The one young lady has five family members saying what she said is absolute nonsense.” (One of her cousins has come forward to suggest she is not credible, not five relatives.)

13. Falsely said, “ICE, last week. ICE endorsed us. ICE.” (Trump was not endorsed by ICE, the government agency Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but by a union of its employees. The endorsement did not happen last week but three weeks ago.)

14. Falsely said, “The Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, allowed thousands of criminal aliens to be released because their home countries wouldn’t take them back.” (A 2001 Supreme Court decision requires these people to be released after six months if their home countries won’t take them. While some critics say the U.S. should take a harder line on the matter to pressure these reluctant countries, it was not Clinton’s decision to release them or not.)

15. Falsely said, “When you look at illegal immigrants voting all over the country...We have voters all over the country where they are not even citizens of the country and they are voting.” (There is no evidence of this actually occurring in any widespread way “all over the country.” Trump was basing the statement on estimates of “non-citizens” voting from a disputed study.)

16. Falsely said, “What was just found out is that the Department of Justice, the State Department and the FBI colluded, got together to make Hillary Clinton look less guilty and a lot better than she looks.” (The documents show a request from a State Department official to the FBI to decide that one of her emails was unclassified rather than classified, and mention of a proposal for a “quid pro quo.” But there is no evidence that any such deal was actually made, or that there was collusion.)

17. Falsely said polls “have us up by four in Ohio and doing really well everywhere…we are ahead in the polls.” (Only the Ohio part is accurate.)

18. Falsely said, “She can’t get 500 people into a room. It’s crazy.” (Clinton drew more than 15,000 people to a rally last week in Ohio.)

19. Falsely said, of companies “leaving” the country, “Ford is leaving.” (Ford is shifting small-car production out of the U.S., but it is not even cutting jobs at the affected plants, which will produce different vehicles. It is certainly not leaving.)

20. Falsely said, “You have the disappearance of 13 iPhones, many of them whacked with a hammer…she whacked them, a lot of them, with a hammer.” (Clinton’s mobile devices were BlackBerrys, not iPhones. Two of them were allegedly hit with a hammer by an aide, not Clinton herself.)

21. Falsely said Clinton will “double your health-care costs.” (There is no evidence of this.)

22. Falsely said of illegal immigrants, “In many cases they’re being treated better than our great veterans.” (Every news outlet that has examined this claim has pronounced it ridiculous.)

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